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UNITED STATS WM. ORTON WILLIAMS, OF W'ASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

BRIDLE-REIN.

T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. ORTON TIL- LnxMs, of lVashington city, in theDistrict of Columbia, have invented a new and Improved Bridle-Rein; and-I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying' drawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The nature ot my invention consists in crossing the bridle reins in sucha manner that when the reins are held in one hand and moved to the rightor left they may exert no counteracting influence on that side of thehorses mouth, opposite to the direction in which you wish him to move,which is the great disadvantage of the reins new in use. Thisarrangement oi". the reins has also the advantage of doing away, in mostcases, with the martingale since a young horse however restive can notsuc-v ceed in throwing the reins over his head.

To enable others skilled in the art to malte and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

There are thre-e modilications of the same principle, which I shallexplain by their appropriate diagrams 1, 2, 3.

In Figure 1 let A and A represent the rings of the bit, and G D II I andC DE F be, what are termed two half round 77reins crossed at D and heldin place by the ring D K (made of whatever material is preterred).

Fig. 9. shows that the spring A often used on the present rein insteadof the buckle may be attached with advantage, while the ring L M worksin a direction perpendicular to that of D K in Fig. 1. If desired, D Kin Fig. 1 may tale if preferred the position of L M in Fie'. 2.

Fig. 3 shows a pair of reins B E R D and F E G I'I of which IJ E Gr, PO, W E R and W L C are round, passing through each other at E and L.

A F and A B represent the buckles.

Now the reins in Fig. 1 being on the horse his neck passing through thebridle at O, if the bridle hand is moved toward the lett the rein G D HI acting against the right side of his neck pulls on the lett side ot'his mouth, and vice versa.

Fig. 2 also shows the martingale to be used with these reins should therider wish one.

D K is a single strap with the ring L IVI attached, through which thecrossed reins nass.

l `What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- The combination of a ring or its equivalent with the crossed reinsof a bridle; and this I claim whether combined with the martingale ornot.

WVM. ORION ILLIAMS.

Witnesses SAML. S. THOMAS, ItoB'r. O. VALKER.

